From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 18 11:43:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34284116A4 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:43:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA17313; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdo17278; Thu Feb 18 19:42:26 1999 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:42:10 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Don Lewis Cc: Jake , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdate panic, anyone seen this? In-Reply-To: <199902180912.BAA18642@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG remember that mfs is still a UFS and as such still calls the stub entrypoints for softupdates and is still subject to the 'syncer' daemon. On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Don Lewis wrote: > On Feb 17, 7:30pm, Jake wrote: > } Subject: Re: softupdate panic, anyone seen this? > } > > * mfs process aborts with signal 11. > } > > * Hang after "syncing disks ... done" message. > } > > } > occasionaly I see the "panic: softdep_sync_metadata: Unknown type bmsafemap" > > After reading the source for softdep_sync_metadata(), I might believe this > could happen if the system tried to sync the block device for a softdep > filesystem before had synced all the files. > > } I was seeing all of this and other wierdness when I had mfs's mounted > } on /tmp and /var/tmp. > > I don't know why MFS would have an effect on this. The only two things > I can think of are either swapping to a file on a softdep filesystem, or > somehow the softupdates stuff thinks it should be active on the MFS > filesystems. What does /sbin/mount say about the mount flags on these > filesystems? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message